The Pistons just beat the defending EC champs and one of the highest scoring teams in the L.

-Without Rip and Prince, also 2 of their best defenders.

-Held them to only 80 points.

I'm interested in the complaints we could get from this game. Did Will Bynum get to the line too much? Did he make hit too many jumpers? Did Stuckey attack to much? Did we make too many shots? Did we play too good defensively?

Lol. Lets get it Pistons!

This is a huge win, especially for team chemistry.

We are building too much chemistry!! Trade everyone. lol.

On a serious note. I was not able to watch the game, so please excuse me. How did we only have 8 team assists for the entire game? Was it just a bunch of isolation plays? Where were the playmakers?

I loved the Bynum, Atkins combo lol. Good thing it was only for two minutes

How about holding Howard to 8 points and 5 rebounds? He was averaging 21 and 16 before this game!

villanueva's defense on ryan anderson was awful and stuckey is still taking too many stupid jumpers. not to mention we shot 37%


but hey, i'll play along...


trade the whole team!!! we just proved ourselves as a contender tonight!!!

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Originally posted by eneal123:
On a serious note. I was not able to watch the game, so please excuse me. How did we only have 8 team assists for the entire game? Was it just a bunch of isolation plays? Where were the playmakers?

it was more of a lot of one-on-one. luckily, we managed to turn a lot of it into ft's and foul trouble for the magic

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Originally posted by GORDON POWER:
villanueva's defense on ryan anderson was awful and stuckey is still taking too many stupid jumpers. not to mention we shot 37%


but hey, i'll play along...


trade the whole team!!! we just proved ourselves as a contender tonight!!!

Anderson shot 1/10 from behind the arc tonight i'm pretty sure he was told to sag a bit...

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Originally posted by TheFutureisStuckey:

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Originally posted by GORDON POWER:
villanueva's defense on ryan anderson was awful and stuckey is still taking too many stupid jumpers. not to mention we shot 37%


but hey, i'll play along...


trade the whole team!!! we just proved ourselves as a contender tonight!!!

Anderson shot 1/10 from behind the arc tonight i'm pretty sure he was told to sag a bit...

ryan anderson has been shooting over 55% on 7 threes per game for the season. im pretty sure kuester didn't tell him to sag.


im thrilled we got the win, but it's silly for people to make threads like there's nothing for kuester to tell the guys after tonight's game.

The Superman and Bynumite story line on the p.com actually played out a little bit.

But let's not forget the Magic were without roided up R. Lewis. A win is a win though.

Great win today, but I'll withold the "contender" status until we break Utah

Forget Utah, let's just see how we play against Orlando at their court Friday night.

yay we can still beat ORlando! we did it!

I'm happy about the win but I think this thread is kinda silly too. Yes they beat the Magic without Rip and Tay. The Magic were also without Lewis and Pietrus and VC had a gimpy ankle. Getting D12 in foul trouble was a positive. But I think SVG really thought the Pistons weren't much of a challenge if his gameplan was to put up a gazillion three point attempts with very little dribble drive or post ups. The style they decided to play definitely helped the Pistons.

As for legit complaints despite the win, I would have liked to see Austin Daye get more PT than he did especially with Prince out. They must really think he isn't ready to play yet.

I love the aggressiveness they show last night. Continually driving into the lane and getting to the FT line.

I loved the heart they showed last night. This team didn't give up and it was nice to see Bynum is a fighter coming back after getting knocked out of the game.

What I loved the most was NOT seeing the Pistons players agruing with the refs. Most of the calls did go their way but it was nice to see the Magic losing their composure and not us for once.

What I didn't like was 8 assists to 27 FG. That shows a lot of one on one play and this won't win you a ton of games.

No talk of Jerebko's solid play as a starter? Too bad he missed all his shots. But hey 5 rebs and 1 block. only 1 personal foul...

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Originally posted by Liquid Slap:
No talk of Jerebko's solid play as a starter? Too bad he missed all his shots. But hey 5 rebs and 1 block. only 1 personal foul...

i'd hardly call his performance "solid." he did have a couple of nice hustle plays though

i didn't see the game but I didn't even notice Daye not getting PT. I was happy Wilcox got on the floor.

I'll gripe about our front court scoring. Granted Orlando has good bigs, but so do a lot of teams.